Morning vehicle crash seriously injures two

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Traffic investigators from the Fairfield Police Department examine a KIA Sepctra that was involved in a single-vehicle crash Thursday morning at the intersection of Clay Bank Road and Quail Drive. The victims, both Fairfield residents, suffered major injures and were transported to a local trauma center with life threatening injuries. They remain in critical condition.
(Joel Rosenbaum -- The Reporter)

Traffic investigators from the Fairfield Police Department gather evidence from a single-vehicle crash the occurred Thursday morning at the intersection of Clay Bank Road and Quail Drive. The victims, both Fairfield residents, suffered major injures and were transported to a local trauma center with life threatening injuries and are in critical condition.
(Joel Rosenbaum -- The Reporter)

The intersection of Clay Bank Road and Quail Drive in Fairfield was closed for several hours Thursday as traffic investigators from the Fairfield Police Department gathered evidence to determine the cause of a single-vehicle crash. The occupants of the car were sent a local trauma center with life threatening injuries.
(Joel Rosenbaum -- The Reporter)

A broken car battery rests in the parking lot of an apartment complex at the intersection of Clay Bank Road and Quail Drive after it was ejected from a KIA Spectra sedan (rear) when it collided with a light pole at high speed Thursday morning. The crash seriously injured the occupants, two Fairfield residents.
(Joel Rosenbaum -- The Reporter)

A KIA Spectra sedan rests on the landscaping along Clay Bank Road in Fairfield. The occupants of the vehicle, both from Fairfield, suffered major injures and are in critical condition after the car collided head on with the light pole Thursday morning.
(Joel Rosenbaum -- The Reporter)

Evidence markers are placed next to debris from a single-vehicle crash Thursday morning at the intersection of Clay Bank Road and Quail Drive in Farifield.
(Joel Rosenbaum -- The Reporter)

Two Fairfield residents are in critical condition after they were involved in a single-vehicle crash Thursday morning.

According to Fairfield Police Department Traffic Unit supervisor Sgt. Gail Hill, at about 5:30 a.m. a KIA Spectra was traveling northbound on Clay Bank Road at a high rate of speed, failing to negotiate a turn onto Quail Drive it collided head-on with a light pole.

Fairfield Firefighters had to cut away parts of the vehicle to extricate the victims, a 33 year-old male, and a 43 year-old female. They were transported to a local trauma center.

Southbound Clay Bank Road was closed for several hours between Air Base Parkway and Sprig Court and yellow evidence markers were placed near pieces of the car debris as traffic investigators gathered evidence and processed the scene to determine the cause of the wreck.

The car’s battery was broken into several pieces when it was ejected from the engine block, coming to rest in the parking lot of an apartment complex nearly 100 feet away from the crash site.

“Speed is believed to be a factor in the collision, and the Traffic Unit is investigating whether or not drugs and/or alcohol were involved,” police said in a press release.

Hill said the vehicle will be taken as evidence allowing investigators to download information from the car’s data recorder and determine among other things, speed, and whether or not the brakes were engaged at the time of crash.

With no witnesses on scene at the time of the crash, Fairfield Police are asking anyone with information to call the department’s traffic unit at 428-7524.